today we’re setting up some box fans to
see if we can make a homemade smoke
tornado not too long ago we took a
watermelon and we turned it into a
pull-tab smoke grenade it worked really
well I was actually surprised at how
well it worked and while it was going
off I had a thought
that I’ve seen videos of people who take
a bunch of box fans and put them in a
circle with a fire in the middle and it
makes just this fire vortex tornado
thing it looks really cool and I was
worried if you could do the same thing
with smoke
well our watermelon did such a good job
of pouring out smoke in high volumes and
multiple colors that I thought we’d try
the same thing with the watermelon but
this time we’ve got eight of these box
fans and we’re gonna set them up in a
circle around the watermelon as it’s got
the smoke coming out of it and see what
happens I want to see if we get a smoke
vortex similar to the fire vortexes that
I’ve already seen here’s what we’ve got
in mind we’ll take these eight box fans
set them up in a circle angle just
off-center put a watermelon absolutely
full of colored smoke powder in the
middle light the smoke turn on the fans
and see what kind of result we get
[Applause]
[Music]
with fire vortex videos I’ve seen they
actually used a few more fans and space
them out a little bit more but fire gets
hot enough that I can actually start to
melt components and the fans this smoke
may put off a little bit of heat but
nowhere near that so I feel pretty safe
keeping it right next to the water mode
when you make a tornado with fire the
fire itself is hot enough that it really
has a lot of drafting force up the heat
is pulling those flames upward quite a
bit I think we’re probably gonna have a
slightly different result than fire
rather than the sort of tube shape that
you get with a flame we might get a
different shape I’m not sure all right
here we go
light the fuse quickly turn on eight
but already got some swirling just from
well from not burning well smoke isn’t
catching
‘we did it like is burning in a circle
kind of is so weird to me like the smoke
just comes out two or three holes at a
time in which two or three keeps
circling around the watermelon that’s
sort of a cyclone just getting yellow
interesting that even with the
watermelon lifted up a little bit the
smoke still gets drawn all the way down
to the ground all right our watermelon
smoke bomb is well apparently it’s not
completely burned out
as the smoke burns it leaves some like
oxidized smoke powder at the top and
that can smother what’s down below so if
I stirred that up we’d probably get a
little bit more burning out of it all of
our watermelon smoke powder smoke has
gone up swirled around pretty
interesting ways I think I was right
that the lack of heat raising it up
caused it to swirl around in more of a
whirlpool style than a tornado style but
it still looked really neat although
there is still one more thing I want to
try and that’s just to put a little bit
of fuel inside this watermelon and light
that with the fans going and see if we
can get a little bit of that fire vortex
ha ha ha ha ha died all that works great
random fact winds inside of a tornado
can reach up to 300 miles per hour
that’s 480 kilometers per hour a little
bit of natural breeze comes in it like
fun stuff smoke whirlpools and fire
tornadoes it was interesting to see the
difference between how fire reacts and
how smoke reacts and like I said I think
that’s because the fire has the heat
that’s pulling it up so fast whereas the
smoke while it is warm it’s not so much
warmer that it’s just trying to shoot
into the sky the same little flames up
are there any other things you want to
see us try with this fan setup I have
some ideas of my own but I want to hear
your thoughts all right guys we’ve got
time today for a couple more question
and answers so here we go first question
is from Jeremy Molinari who asks what
are some of your biggest problems you
come across when having to build all of
these crazy projects well let’s see I
would say that the biggest problem we
run into is that when we have cool build
projects like we’re making something to
show you how to do it a lot of the time
there aren’t any other people who have
done that project sometimes we do
projects that have been done
in other ways and we’re just trying to
give our own twist on them but when
we’re really trying to come up with how
to make something from scratch the
problem is that we don’t have any
instructions to follow if there were
good instructions out there already then
we wouldn’t necessarily be making your
video on it so all the time we’re trying
to show you how to do something that we
didn’t know how to do and so it takes a
lot of research and a lot of trial and
error and sometimes we have to do
multiple prototypes
we’ll try building something and it
doesn’t work or only a little bit of it
work since we have to take the part that
does work and there’s build a new one
and doing that over and over takes kind
of a lot of time and unfortunately I
don’t have all the time in the world so
if things are taking too much time I
often have to give up on something for a
while and come back to it later so that
I have time to just go on and make other
projects other videos other experiments
and stuff like that so time restraint is
really one of the big ones in that if I
can’t find enough information of how to
do something I have to just figure it
out by trial and error myself while I
like doing that it sometimes can end up
being this big old project for something
that’s relatively small I don’t want to
spend three weeks trying to figure out
how to do something that’s really only a
it should only be a 10 or 15 minute
project Thank You Jeremy for your
question I hope I answered it
satisfactorily our next question comes
from a user named tracer who asks will
there be live streaming or podcast type
content tracers yes and no yes – some of
that podcast type content
we’re not probably going to have
anything that really resembles a podcast
but I think we are going to try and do
more of this type of thing where in some
videos we take a little bit of time to
talk about some other random stuff
things coming up on the channel would be
a good topic I think we might get into
that a little bit I don’t think we’re
probably gonna get into playing video
games on the channel or streaming video
games but I’m not gonna rule it out I
personally am not very good at most
video games I’ve played some I’ve
enjoyed some but I’m not a big gamer
sharing some maker tips and like that’s
a that’s something I actually do quite
like is the idea of sharing maker tips
and these after video question answer
sessions which
like I’m trying to explain we’ll be a
little bit more general it won’t just be
question and answer but we’re just
getting into it and figuring out a good
flow for it so far but that is a great
idea and I am going to start writing
down tips and ideas I have sometimes I
have things that I would like to share
that don’t necessarily fit in a specific
project video but it would be a great
idea to just sort of start making a list
of them and share them with you as they
come up I think they would be really
good for me to focus on those I think it
would help me come up with more ideas
and do better work and hopefully it
would help some of you as well getting
to share those ideas and get them out
there so thank you tracer who also has
the handle at tracer m6c thank you for
your question hope I answered that for
you thanks for tuning in
guys there’s more for you to see the box
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see if we can make a homemade smoke
tornado not too long ago we took a
watermelon and we turned it into a
pull-tab smoke grenade it worked really
well I was actually surprised at how
well it worked and while it was going
off I had a thought
that I’ve seen videos of people who take
a bunch of box fans and put them in a
circle with a fire in the middle and it
makes just this fire vortex tornado
thing it looks really cool and I was
worried if you could do the same thing
with smoke
well our watermelon did such a good job
of pouring out smoke in high volumes and
multiple colors that I thought we’d try
the same thing with the watermelon but
this time we’ve got eight of these box
fans and we’re gonna set them up in a
circle around the watermelon as it’s got
the smoke coming out of it and see what
happens I want to see if we get a smoke
vortex similar to the fire vortexes that
I’ve already seen here’s what we’ve got
in mind we’ll take these eight box fans
set them up in a circle angle just
off-center put a watermelon absolutely
full of colored smoke powder in the
middle light the smoke turn on the fans
and see what kind of result we get
[Applause]
[Music]
with fire vortex videos I’ve seen they
actually used a few more fans and space
them out a little bit more but fire gets
hot enough that I can actually start to
melt components and the fans this smoke
may put off a little bit of heat but
nowhere near that so I feel pretty safe
keeping it right next to the water mode
when you make a tornado with fire the
fire itself is hot enough that it really
has a lot of drafting force up the heat
is pulling those flames upward quite a
bit I think we’re probably gonna have a
slightly different result than fire
rather than the sort of tube shape that
you get with a flame we might get a
different shape I’m not sure all right
here we go
light the fuse quickly turn on eight
but already got some swirling just from
well from not burning well smoke isn’t
catching
‘we did it like is burning in a circle
kind of is so weird to me like the smoke
just comes out two or three holes at a
time in which two or three keeps
circling around the watermelon that’s
sort of a cyclone just getting yellow
interesting that even with the
watermelon lifted up a little bit the
smoke still gets drawn all the way down
to the ground all right our watermelon
smoke bomb is well apparently it’s not
completely burned out
as the smoke burns it leaves some like
oxidized smoke powder at the top and
that can smother what’s down below so if
I stirred that up we’d probably get a
little bit more burning out of it all of
our watermelon smoke powder smoke has
gone up swirled around pretty
interesting ways I think I was right
that the lack of heat raising it up
caused it to swirl around in more of a
whirlpool style than a tornado style but
it still looked really neat although
there is still one more thing I want to
try and that’s just to put a little bit
of fuel inside this watermelon and light
that with the fans going and see if we
can get a little bit of that fire vortex
ha ha ha ha ha died all that works great
random fact winds inside of a tornado
can reach up to 300 miles per hour
that’s 480 kilometers per hour a little
bit of natural breeze comes in it like
fun stuff smoke whirlpools and fire
tornadoes it was interesting to see the
difference between how fire reacts and
how smoke reacts and like I said I think
that’s because the fire has the heat
that’s pulling it up so fast whereas the
smoke while it is warm it’s not so much
warmer that it’s just trying to shoot
into the sky the same little flames up
are there any other things you want to
see us try with this fan setup I have
some ideas of my own but I want to hear
your thoughts all right guys we’ve got
time today for a couple more question
and answers so here we go first question
is from Jeremy Molinari who asks what
are some of your biggest problems you
come across when having to build all of
these crazy projects well let’s see I
would say that the biggest problem we
run into is that when we have cool build
projects like we’re making something to
show you how to do it a lot of the time
there aren’t any other people who have
done that project sometimes we do
projects that have been done
in other ways and we’re just trying to
give our own twist on them but when
we’re really trying to come up with how
to make something from scratch the
problem is that we don’t have any
instructions to follow if there were
good instructions out there already then
we wouldn’t necessarily be making your
video on it so all the time we’re trying
to show you how to do something that we
didn’t know how to do and so it takes a
lot of research and a lot of trial and
error and sometimes we have to do
multiple prototypes
we’ll try building something and it
doesn’t work or only a little bit of it
work since we have to take the part that
does work and there’s build a new one
and doing that over and over takes kind
of a lot of time and unfortunately I
don’t have all the time in the world so
if things are taking too much time I
often have to give up on something for a
while and come back to it later so that
I have time to just go on and make other
projects other videos other experiments
and stuff like that so time restraint is
really one of the big ones in that if I
can’t find enough information of how to
do something I have to just figure it
out by trial and error myself while I
like doing that it sometimes can end up
being this big old project for something
that’s relatively small I don’t want to
spend three weeks trying to figure out
how to do something that’s really only a
it should only be a 10 or 15 minute
project Thank You Jeremy for your
question I hope I answered it
satisfactorily our next question comes
from a user named tracer who asks will
there be live streaming or podcast type
content tracers yes and no yes – some of
that podcast type content
we’re not probably going to have
anything that really resembles a podcast
but I think we are going to try and do
more of this type of thing where in some
videos we take a little bit of time to
talk about some other random stuff
things coming up on the channel would be
a good topic I think we might get into
that a little bit I don’t think we’re
probably gonna get into playing video
games on the channel or streaming video
games but I’m not gonna rule it out I
personally am not very good at most
video games I’ve played some I’ve
enjoyed some but I’m not a big gamer
sharing some maker tips and like that’s
a that’s something I actually do quite
like is the idea of sharing maker tips
and these after video question answer
sessions which
like I’m trying to explain we’ll be a
little bit more general it won’t just be
question and answer but we’re just
getting into it and figuring out a good
flow for it so far but that is a great
idea and I am going to start writing
down tips and ideas I have sometimes I
have things that I would like to share
that don’t necessarily fit in a specific
project video but it would be a great
idea to just sort of start making a list
of them and share them with you as they
come up I think they would be really
good for me to focus on those I think it
would help me come up with more ideas
and do better work and hopefully it
would help some of you as well getting
to share those ideas and get them out
there so thank you tracer who also has
the handle at tracer m6c thank you for
your question hope I answered that for
you thanks for tuning in
guys there’s more for you to see the box
up at the top will transport you
directly to our last video you should
check that one out the other box show
you what YouTube things you need to be
watching next if you haven’t subscribed
to our channel yet this bomb in the
middle will make it so you never miss a
video don’t forget to ring the bell and
we’ll see in the next one talk to you then
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